So what to do from here?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by Italkcash, Apr 12, 2008.

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    I have build www.italkcash.com for quite a while now. Spend like 8000$ on traffic, marketing and submitting to news services. Now what should I do next?

    - Submit to directories?
    - Buy traffic (if this is even possible)
    - Let it grow by itself
     
    Italkcash, Apr 12, 2008 IP
  2. Wayne Liew

    Wayne Liew Banned

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    You can start to SEO your forums by editing threads of your members or the replies to fill it with keywords, especially the titles. This could help building search engine traffic in the long run.
     
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  3. silveraden

    silveraden Banned

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    This hurts... I did never spend a single penny promoting my own site...
     
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  4. Italkcash

    Italkcash Peon

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    Well we did get some nice promotion about it at certain related websites, so I am happy about it. My problem is just that the traffic is not growing, despite the fact that we have plenty of members and pretty informative info.
    We already have VbSEO installed and we hit on 1000+ keywords, but its still to little. So what to do? I have cash, now how do I spend it?
     
    Italkcash, Apr 19, 2008 IP
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    sam_m Peon

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    let it grow but remember to update
     
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  6. magda

    magda Notable Member

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    That is a a lot of money to have spent on promotion - do you know what your return on investment has been? What was worth paying for and what wasn't? In your shoes I'd do some long hard analysis of what your money had gone on, and what was woth paying for, rather than being too eager to keep spreading money around.
     
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    dont "buy traffic", but advertisements PPC so that only people remotely interested will click and go, which will increase likelihood that a visitor will sign up for your forum.
     
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    hillord Well-Known Member

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    $8000 is alot to be spending on traffic itself. you should at least market it yourself and discover what the website can help people.
     
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  9. Italkcash

    Italkcash Peon

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    Are there no places I can buy "bulk" traffic that is actually "bulk". Not bots, not php code, not all that stuff. I mean real visitors, buying them by the numbers.
     
    Italkcash, Apr 19, 2008 IP